Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 70.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bells Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris, R. Flowr and K.V.W. Palmer, Paleontological Research Inst. Exp. 1935. Field notebook No. 40.
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92352: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 08.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pholas alatoidea clam
Pholas aldrichi clam | |
Corbula concha clam
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata Dall 1898 clam
Vokesula aldrichi Meyer 1885 clam | |
Basterotia prima Aldrich 1921 clam | |
Nemocardium harrisi cockle | |
Donax acutangula clam | |
Tellina bellsiana tellin clam
Tellina semirotunda tellin clam | |
Dosiniopsis lenticularis Rogers 1838 venus clam | |
Mysella minuta clam | |
Panopea bellsensis clam | |
Venericardia "spp. H", Venericardia (Venericor) aposmithi, "Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi
Venericardia "spp. H" Lamarck 1801 clam
"Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi Stewart 1930 clam | |
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi Harris 1897 scallop | |
Ostrea (Ostrea) intermedoides Aldrich 1921 oyster | |
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Yoldia (Calorhadia) pharcida Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
"Simnia regularoidea" = Transovula regularoidea
"Simnia regularoidea" = Transovula regularoidea Aldrich 1921 snail | |
Galeodea koureos Gardner 1939 snail | |
Priscoficus triserialis fig shell | |
"cf. Scaphella newcombiana" = Scaphella, Caricella podagrina
"cf. Scaphella newcombiana" = Scaphella volute
Caricella podagrina volute | |
Pseudoliva santander, Pseudoliva vetusta, Pseudoliva tuberculifera, "Pseudoliva scalina" = Popenoeum scalina, Cantharus johnsoni
Pseudoliva santander true whelk
Pseudoliva tuberculifera Conrad 1860 true whelk
"Pseudoliva scalina" = Popenoeum scalina Heilprin 1881 true whelk
Cantharus johnsoni true whelk | |
cf. Cyllene bellana, "Buccinanops ellipticum" = Bullia (Buccinanops)
cf. Cyllene bellana snail
"Buccinanops ellipticum" = Bullia (Buccinanops) snail | |
Narona greggi snail | |
"Surcula nasuta" = Turricula
"Surcula nasuta" = Turricula snail | |
""Pleurotoma" capax" = Turris
""Pleurotoma" capax" = Turris turrid | |
Capulus expansus snail | |
"Potamides" fulvarupis horn snail | |
Turritella eurynome turret shell
Turritella praecincta turret shell | |
Solariorbis "sp. B" Conrad 1865 snail | |
Acteocina leai barrel-bubble | |
Architectonica bellensis sundial | |
Ringicula butleriana snail | |
Turbonilla "sp. A", Turbonilla (Cingulina) tuscahomensis, "Odostomia (Evalea) bartschi" = Evalea, Pyramidella (Iphiana) anita
Turbonilla "sp. A" Risso 1826 snail
"Odostomia (Evalea) bartschi" = Evalea snail |